摘要： While there is an ample amount of medical information available for data mining, many of the datasets are unfortunately incomplete – missing relevant values needed by many machine learning algorithms. Several approaches have been proposed for the imputation of missing values, using various reasoning steps to provide estimations from the observed data. One of the important steps in data mining is data preprocessing, where unrepresentative data is filtered out of the data to be mined. However, none of the related studies about missing value imputation consider performing a data preprocessing step before imputation. Therefore, the aim of this study is to examine the effect of two preprocessing steps, feature and instance selection, on missing value imputation. Specifically, eight different medical‐related datasets are used, containing categorical, numerical and mixed types of data. Our experimental results show that imputation after instance selection can produce better classification performance than imputation alone. In addition, we will demonstrate that imputation after feature selection does not have a positive impact on the imputation result. 其他題名： Expert Systems 出版者： Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 出版日期： 2016-10 出處： Expert systems, 2016-10, Vol.33 (5), p.432-438 資源來源： EBSCOhost Business Source Premier 版權： 2016 Wiley Publishing Ltd 識別號： ISSN: 0266-4720 識別號： EISSN: 1468-0394 識別號： DOI: 10.1111/exsy.12155
